Sentences with phrase «cities made the grade»

That's a tall order to fill, and only nine cities made the grade.

That was a tough order this year: only seven cities made the grade — all of them with a solid overall mark of A -.

Not exact matches

Southern metros including No. 4 San Antonio, No. 6 Charleston, S.C., No. 8 Oklahoma City and No. 9 Houston also make the grade of top 10 metros for millennials.

The Chester born defender spent six years at Man United but failed to make the grade, securing just two first team run - outs before his # 1m move to Stoke City back in January 2008.

Hull City don't have a great deal to offer up front but have the very talented Geovanni to play in the hole behind the strikers and the likes of Caleb Folan, Marlon King and Daniel Cousin all failed to make the grade at the KC Stadium,

The last time Liverpool purchased a young English striker, there was initially something of a mixed reaction to a player that had failed to make the grade at both Chelsea and Manchester City.

Meanwhile, Man City trio Vincent Kompany, David Silva and Leroy Sane make the grade as they helped Pep Guardiola's side take another step closer to the Premier League title with a comfortable 3 - 1 win over Everton.

Having moved to Barca in 2005 to join their youth ranks before making the grade at senior level, it's no surprise that Thiago holds the Catalan giants and the city close to his heart, and in turn he has suggested that he would be open to the idea of a return further down the line.

If I am honest, the idea of a player who couldn't make the grade at a team like Bristol City joining Leeds didn't help the pessimist in me.

Prior to his move to Stoke City in 2013, Butland rejected a chance to join Chelsea after the Blues had agreed a fee with his former club Birmingham City because he feared that he wouldn't make the grade at Stamford Bridge but opted to join the Potters that same transfer window because his chances of playing regularly was higher with them.

It really is a tantalising prospect: a Chelsea team buoyed by their progress in the Champions League going up against the current Premier League pacesetters, a Man City side who didn't quiet make the grade in Europe this season but have set the benchmark back home by winning 12 of their first 14 league matches in a simply stunning unbeaten sequence.

A budget watch dog group is giving Gov. Andrew Cuomo a mixed grade on his budget proposals, saying he's done a good job reigning in spending, but is making a mistake by shifting some significant costs to New York City.

The city inspections are currently not made public, which Peralta says prompted his bill that would require the city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to convert the existing health inspections into the letter grade equivalent.

Like restaurants, which are required to show a letter grade for their level of cleanliness, lawmakers at the city and state level want to make sure that street food vendors get the same treatment.

Those policies include a ten - year plan, $ 81 million to make computer science a requirement in city schools, and a $ 75 million annual commitment to hire reaching specialists to get all students up to reading on their grade level by the end of second grade.

New York City students in grades 3 through eight made modest gains on the state's annual math and English exams, outstripping gains made by students in the rest of the state, according to statistics released on Aug. 8 by the state Education Department.

Beijing currently forbids vehicles that do not meet required standards from entering the city, but officials have admitted that China currently lacks the monitoring and policing capability to ensure all cars make the grade, and drivers have also found ways to avoid detection.

Taunted by their classmates since grade school and never quite able to escape the culturally suffocating confines of their homogenized Midwestern hometown, a pair of small - town misfits make a break for the big city in this comedy from director Lorene Machado.

One of the lessons taught by Learning Lab staff teacher Lucilla Ralfa when I visited recently was about erosion: After a lesson about the concept, the students, inner city children in grades 4 - 6, were given dirt, sand, pebbles and rocks to make a model of a mountain that would stand up to a hurricane.

On the student side, schools in cities like New York, Chicago, and Washington, D.C., are experimenting with financial rewards, including cash payouts to students who make good grades or show other achievement.

Also, the New York City study was unable to follow students after 8th grade, making it impossible to know whether the negative impacts that were observed were temporary or extended into high school.

After just one full year, charter schools already make up nearly 10 percent of Jackson's public school enrollment in the three grades that charter schools currently serve showing the high demand from parents in the city.

Moreover, a higher percentage of students at Carol City read below grade level, making it harder to introduce more challenging texts.

First place: Remedial Screening Tests, High School Grades, and College Success by Zun Tang and Sarah Truelsch, City University of New York Second place: Improving the Measurement of STEM Gender and Racial Gaps in the Workforce by Yu - chieh Hsu, Janna E. Johnson, and Javaeria Qureshi, University of Illinois at Chicago Third place: Is Facebook Making Us Greener?

In addition to jettisoning simple letter grades for each school, the city is trying to make them parent friendly.

Standardized testing has become so ingrained into her school year that Rebecca Lippy, a fifth - grade teacher at Maryland City Elementary School in Laurel, Maryland, has a hard time imagining how the new Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which has replaced No Child Left Behind, is going to make a difference in her classroom.

At the Queen City Classic, The Schilling School took 3rd place in the 7th - 9th grade division behind two regional all - star teams, making us the top single - school team.

Elm City Montessori School is a racially and economically diverse New Haven public elementary school serving PreK - 3 through 8th grade, where students are guided to make decisions and work to their full potential through an educational program that follows Dr. Maria Montessori's philosophy.

The bill would allow the Malloy administration to repeal a form of local budget flexibility that was granted to certain cities and towns during last years» legislative session if that school district was unable to persuade 95 % of parents to make their children take the Common Core aligned standardized testing that take place in grades 3 - 8 and 11.

In the city, students must earn at least a Level 2 to move on to the next grade, but Mr. Abrams said the tests were never designed to be used to make those judgments.

We even live on one of those iconic San Francisco street (a hill with a 17 % grade that doesn't even make it into the top ten of most steep streets in the city).

In short, I needed to take both man - made and natural disasters into account when I set Annie Fuller's boarding house in the 400 block of O'Farrell Street to make sure that the street existed in 1880, that it was an area of the city that would have had a boarding house, and that the physical environment would be the same (grade of the hill, etc).

Boys from all walks of life, including boys who seem to have made it — the suburban high school football captain, the seventh - grade prep school class president, the small - town police chief's son, the inner - city student who is an outstanding cartoonist and son of a welfare mother — all were feeling so alone that f worried that they often seemed to channel their despair into rage not only toward others but toward themselves.

Imagine if all those vehicles had silent electric drives; it would totally change the sounds of the city, making it far more livable at grade and above.

Taylor Wessing promotes 10 to partnership with City employee incentives lawyer making the grade

The US firm has made up two finance lawyers in the City, with Anna Lawry and Alex Robb making the grade.

US firm makes magic circle hire in Germany and promotes three to partnership with City M&A associate making the grade

At Southwestern, we have also developed a variety of initiatives.21 One is a vehicle for me as dean to teach first - year students at the beginning and end of their six - credit legal writing course entitled LAWS (Legal Research, Analysis, Writing, and Skills).22 At the beginning, I present data from the After the J.D. study, which is a longitudinal study following close to 5,000 lawyers admitted to the bar in the year 2000.23 The project is headquartered at the American Bar Foundation and involves the NALP Foundation among others.24 We have data from three years and seven years and will soon collect a third wave of data.25 I do a PowerPoint presentation that shows our students what difference it makes in early careers where one attends law school; what city or region one chooses to begin the career; what law school grades are received; gender, race and ethnicity effects; earnings in various settings; and the job satisfaction of people in different positions.

The city will have copies of work permits and grading issues, but electrical permit inquiries must be made through ESA — Electrical Safety Authority.